User talk:Gorrister

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Hi - I made some changes to the Pete Rose article, so let me know what you think. My personal belief is that the statistics table (like the one on Hank Aaron's page) take up more page space than they're worth, as links to Baseball-Reference.com and other sites can provide the same info (and with better linking on their side); I just think the page space could be put to much better use, especially with someone like this where there's a be said. MisfitToys 00:07, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

I've never actually received a message. I appreciate the changes you made. I liked the look of the Aaron page - the one I'm currently revamping as we speak. You make a good point about links to other sites might be a better suggestion. I'm fairly new at this so I didn't want to undo somebody else's hard work and thought the information was relevent. The other reason I went with this is becase the Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball players suggested it and so I went with it. They seem to fallen down on the job. I'm will to go either way. Have you looked at the Aaron page yet? Would you take out all the statistics? I particularly don't like the yearly league leadership rankings but didn't want to delete and have somebody get off. Let me know what you think so I make the Aaron changes (and Rose changes) tomorrow. Thanks for taking the time to let me know what you thing - By the way - how do you get the time of your edit to show up automatically? Gorrister
Just sign your messages with four consecutive ~ marks, and the timestamp will appear automatically. MisfitToys 02:45, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] VFD nominations

Your recent VFD nominations weren't in the correct form. They were missing the requisite header. Please read WP:GVFD#Nomination. Uncle G 18:23, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)

[edit] Moe Berg

Wow! My first reaction was that there is too much in the Moe Berg article now - that sports stuff is so detailed I'm not sure how many non-baseball-fanatics will get through it. What's interesting about Berg, after all, isn't his sports career but everything else. On reflection, though, I think the introduction and headers are well done enough to (a) pique the casual reader's interest and (b) let them find the parts they want. So well done!

And in response to the message above this one, I'm having trouble figuring out how to do VFD these days, too! It used to be so easy. - DavidWBrooks 19:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. The baseball stuff might be a little too indepth I'll admit, but I wouldn't want to shorten it too much more. His life in the spy business was really interesting and the stuff after the war was just plain old sad. So much outside of his baseball career seems kind of nebulous and unverifiable (the stories of the Doolittle raid for example) that at least with the baseball stuff, I know they are 100% verifiable. Gorrister 20:00, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moe Berg and the State Department

Thank you for the kind words about my edits. I think you must have missed though, that I actually took that bit about the State Department back out in the middle of my series of edits. I did find one source that mentioned that, but then realized my other sources did not so I removed it. If I missed a reference you can feel free to take it out, but I thought it was already gone. Indrian 13:38, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Accidental removal of nomination 80.58.11.45

Sorry. That was an accident - I had no intention of removing that. There was an error message when I attempted to save an edit on a different user and I saved it a second time. Apparently, this overwrote your entry re: 80.58.11.45.

WCFrancis 20:40, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pete Rose

What were you trying to do with this edit that was marked minor: [1]? It left the template broken and the word " " was replaced with spaces multiple times. —Lowellian (talk) 23:40, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

  • Sorry about that. We have cyber sitter at home and it wasn't disabled when I made my changes. It will filter out any words that it deems inappropriate - - being one of them. Gorrister 12:09, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ah, okay, I understand. Keep contributing! —Lowellian (talk) 03:51, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sandy Koufax

I will give it a look sometime in the next few days. Indrian 23:46, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Crazy Horse

Thanks for the compliment on the rewrite and for doing the copy edit. I should have taken more time to review my changes, but I'd been looking at it so long that when I read it I kept scanning over the mistakes. Gorrister 15:12, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

You are most welcome, Gorrister! I miss a lot of things when I read my own writing, too. --sparkit (talk) 18:51, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

Thanks, just trying to standardise everything - spread the love by applying similar changes if you see an out-of-place infobox. ed g2s • talk 13:00, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

You might be interested in this dicussion: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life/taxobox_usage#Style ed g2s • talk 13:05, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello. Some of us, including me and Googie man, have been discussing the creation of a Baseball portal (see Wikipedia:Wikiportal). Would you be interested in helping out on this? Danny 23:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Very much so. What do I need to do? Gorrister 00:44, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cfd:Controversial books

Could you take a look at the Cfd you made? I think you've misunderstood the category and what the word "Controversial" means. It is not hard to establish whether a book was sufficiently "controversial", i.e. that it generated controversy. And it is not necessarily a negative term -- the Bible is/was controversial, the Koran is/was controversial, the Origin of Species is/was controversial, Machiavelli's The Prince is/was controversial. It has no bearing on their validity -- more than anything else, it means the book had an impact of some sort, it generated discussion, disagreement, assent, etc! If you could reconsider this, I would very much appreciate it, I think it is a useful and interesting category. Thank you. --Fastfission 04:41, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Karl Scherer

Please note that there are issues with the "6500 google hits", now explained at the VfD. It is possible this would have a substantial effect on your choice of voting. ~~~~ 22:05, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Last Laugh

Hey...just curious why you changed Last Laugh (M*A*S*H episode) so that in the episode template the characters the actors played are no longer listed next to the names of the actors.

I don't want to start a revert war, so perhaps if you and I (as we seem to be the only ones really doing anything) can come to a consensus either way it'd be really great. Thanks! Kurt Weber 7 July 2005 02:16 (UTC)

Hi, I did it for consistancy sake - the ones already done for the first season didn't have them in the episode template. Also, because of the size of the box, the names always wrap and, in my opinion, don't look as good. But, if you feel that they really need to be there then we can find a way to put it in and still look good. Gorrister 7 July 2005 10:15 (UTC)
Well, I think the very concept of having articles on individual shows (no matter how influential or important the series was) is only borderline encyclopedic--it's inside that line, but it's close to breaking it. However, if you're going to have articles on the show and list the guest stars (important information that BELONGS in such an article), then I think it's also important to know who they played--especially with M*A*S*H, where the guest stars always played such an important part of the plot. Kurt Weber 7 July 2005 16:25 (UTC)
I agree that the information should be provided, and it is. In the second paragraph of the overview section is where I've been putting a list of guest stars and the parts they played. If you want to just include it in the information box, then I think the box needs to be wider so that at least some of the names and characters don't wrap. Gorrister 7 July 2005 16:30 (UTC)
That's true, but that wouldn't be the only information in the infobox that's duplicated in the overview section--there's the writers and director, broadcast number and date, and the names of the guest stars themselves. I think for consistency's sake, we should either duplicate everything or nothing at all. Kurt Weber 7 July 2005 18:01 (UTC)
OK, I've made a couple of minor changes to the episode template that I think makes it look better if the character names are included. What do you thing? Gorrister 7 July 2005 18:23 (UTC)

[edit] Bonus baby

The Wikimedia Foundation just received an email from the co-owner of Hardball Times saying that the text in the Wikipedia article Bonus baby was lifted from http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/cash-in-the-cradle-the-bonus-babies/ . I have commented out the alleged copyright violation awaiting either a rewrite by you or an explanation. If you rewrite the text, make sure to cite the source given above as the reference used (See wikipedia:Cite sources). You can use other websites and sources as references, but copying the copyrighted work of others is not permitted. Please see this as a learning experience. --mav 17:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Sgtslaughter.jpg

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[edit] Image Tagging Image:PeteRose4192Hit.jpg

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[edit] M*A*S*H Wiki

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Cobb_coke_ad.jpg

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[edit] Diocesan Infobox

To the creators of Diocesan/Archdiocesan articles

I have proposed at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Catholicism an infobox for Catholic Dioceses. I have not gotten any feedback on this proposal, so I’m culling feedback, advice, corrections, etc. for this. If you have the time, would you check out User:SkierRMH/Diocese_Infobox and give me some feedback! Thanks much!!

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